Ashiqullah, a resident of the town outside Bagram, said locals stormed the base at 4 am. He said it continued for hours, and he saw people taking out metal and plastic to be sold as scrap.
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Business Insider: Almost as soon as the US military left its biggest air base in Afghanistan, looters rolled in
* Bagram, the biggest air base in Afghanistan, was ransacked within hours of the US's withdrawal.
* Afghan officials said the US didn't coordinate the withdrawal with them. The US military denies this.
* Looters stole laptops and gas canisters.
It's not a good sign for the future of Afghanistan.
Within hours of the US withdrawal from Bagram - the largest air base in Afghanistan and the longtime hub of America's longest war - looters rolled in.
The looters stole laptops and gas canisters from the base, said Darwaish Raufi, a district administrator for Bagram, The New York Times reported.
Raufi said the US withdrawal from the base was done overnight and not in coordination with local officials.
"Unfortunately the Americans left without any coordination with Bagram district officials or the governor's office," Raufi said, the Associated Press reported.
"Right now our Afghan security forces are in control both inside and outside of the base."
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Update #1: Afghanis LOOT Bagram airbase HOURS after US troops pull out and leave the site 'without telling local officials' - as experts fear America's withdrawal could plunge the country into new crisis (Daily Mail)
Update #2: Looters Moved Into Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield Hours After U.S. Troops Left (Newsweek)
WNU Editor: This is definitely a very bad sign on where Afghanistan is heading.
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